Japan Sales Week 2 Media Create - January 07-13, 2019

[Miyamotoo]

Farsala said:

StarDoor said:

3DS had an install base of 9.8 million at the end of 2012, meaning it had an attach rate of 2.43 versus Switch's 2.92 at the equivalent point in its life. Somehow, this is spun as "worse than expected."

You missed this part "a bit".

In general Switch has done a bit worse than expected for most people, it had good pace with the 3DS but not anymore. Due to having less HW sales it also had less SW sales it is only natural. If you followed the last 6 weeks of media create , you would know that I challenged everyone to predict the last 6 weeks for the holidays and LTD sales at the end of the year, but only got 3 takers. I admit I underestimated the Switch by about 9.5%, but the other 3 predictors overestimated the Switch. So with that sample size 3/4 expected the Switch to do better :).

But Switch having higher attach rate means Switch software sales are more impressive than 3DS ones in same time period, and that's without count of digital sales that are for Switch much higher than they were on 3DS in any case.